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20202025
most citedOn the eigenvector bias of Fourier feature networks: From regression to solving multi-scale PDEs with physics-informed neural networks

705 citations · 1.4k across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.LG2025

General Fourier Feature Physics-Informed Extreme Learning Machine (GFF-PIELM) for High-Frequency PDEs

Fei Ren, Sifan Wang, Pei-Zhi Zhuang +2

Conventional physics-informed extreme learning machine (PIELM) often faces challenges in solving partial differential equations (PDEs) involving high-frequency and variable-frequen…

cs.LG2025★ 12 cited

A Practitioner's Guide to Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Amir Noorizadegan, Sifan Wang, Leevan Ling +1

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), whose design is inspired-rather than dictated-by the Kolmogorov superposition theorem, have emerged as a structured alternative to MLPs. This rev…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Simulating Three-dimensional Turbulence with Physics-informed Neural Networks

Sifan Wang, Shyam Sankaran, Xiantao Fan +2

Turbulent fluid flows are among the most computationally demanding problems in science, requiring enormous computational resources that become prohibitive at high flow speeds. Phys…

cs.LG2025

Gradient Alignment in Physics-informed Neural Networks: A Second-Order Optimization Perspective

Sifan Wang, Ananyae Kumar Bhartari, Bowen Li +1

Multi-task learning through composite loss functions is fundamental to modern deep learning, yet optimizing competing objectives remains challenging. We present new theoretical and…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 1 cited

Disk2Planet: A Robust and Automated Machine Learning Tool for Parameter Inference in Disk-Planet Systems

Shunyuan Mao, Ruobing Dong, Kwang Moo Yi +3

We introduce Disk2Planet, a machine learning-based tool to infer key parameters in disk-planet systems from observed protoplanetary disk structures. Disk2Planet takes as input the…

cs.CE2024

Micrometer: Micromechanics Transformer for Predicting Mechanical Responses of Heterogeneous Materials

Sifan Wang, Tong-Rui Liu, Shyam Sankaran +1

Heterogeneous materials, crucial in various engineering applications, exhibit complex multiscale behavior, which challenges the effectiveness of traditional computational methods.…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

CViT: Continuous Vision Transformer for Operator Learning

Sifan Wang, Jacob H Seidman, Shyam Sankaran +3

Operator learning, which aims to approximate maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces, is an important area in scientific machine learning with applications across various…

cs.LG2024★ 25 cited

PirateNets: Physics-informed Deep Learning with Residual Adaptive Networks

Sifan Wang, Bowen Li, Yuhan Chen +1

While physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have become a popular deep learning framework for tackling forward and inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (P…

cs.LG2023

Learning Only On Boundaries: a Physics-Informed Neural operator for Solving Parametric Partial Differential Equations in Complex Geometries

Zhiwei Fang, Sifan Wang, Paris Perdikaris

Recently deep learning surrogates and neural operators have shown promise in solving partial differential equations (PDEs). However, they often require a large amount of training d…

cs.LG2023★ 67 cited

An Expert's Guide to Training Physics-informed Neural Networks

Sifan Wang, Shyam Sankaran, Hanwen Wang +1

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been popularized as a deep learning framework that can seamlessly synthesize observational data and partial differential equation (PDE…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 30 cited

PPDONet: Deep Operator Networks for Fast Prediction of Steady-State Solutions in Disk-Planet Systems

Shunyuan Mao, Ruobing Dong, Lu Lu +3

We develop a tool, which we name Protoplanetary Disk Operator Network (PPDONet), that can predict the solution of disk-planet interactions in protoplanetary disks in real-time. We…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Ensemble learning for Physics Informed Neural Networks: a Gradient Boosting approach

Zhiwei Fang, Sifan Wang, Paris Perdikaris

While the popularity of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) is steadily rising, to this date, PINNs have not been successful in simulating multi-scale and singular perturbatio…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

Random Weight Factorization Improves the Training of Continuous Neural Representations

Sifan Wang, Hanwen Wang, Jacob H. Seidman +1

Continuous neural representations have recently emerged as a powerful and flexible alternative to classical discretized representations of signals. However, training them to captur…

cs.LG2022★ 35 cited

Mitigating Propagation Failures in Physics-informed Neural Networks using Retain-Resample-Release (R3) Sampling

Arka Daw, Jie Bu, Sifan Wang +2

Despite the success of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) in approximating partial differential equations (PDEs), PINNs can sometimes fail to converge to the correct solution…

cs.LG2022★ 18 cited

Respecting causality is all you need for training physics-informed neural networks

Sifan Wang, Shyam Sankaran, Paris Perdikaris

While the popularity of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) is steadily rising, to this date PINNs have not been successful in simulating dynamical systems whose solution exhi…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

Fast PDE-constrained optimization via self-supervised operator learning

Sifan Wang, Mohamed Aziz Bhouri, Paris Perdikaris

Design and optimal control problems are among the fundamental, ubiquitous tasks we face in science and engineering. In both cases, we aim to represent and optimize an unknown (blac…

cs.LG2021★ 8 cited

Improved architectures and training algorithms for deep operator networks

Sifan Wang, Hanwen Wang, Paris Perdikaris

Operator learning techniques have recently emerged as a powerful tool for learning maps between infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. Trained under appropriate constraints, they can…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Long-time integration of parametric evolution equations with physics-informed DeepONets

Sifan Wang, Paris Perdikaris

Ordinary and partial differential equations (ODEs/PDEs) play a paramount role in analyzing and simulating complex dynamic processes across all corners of science and engineering. I…

cs.LG2021★ 62 cited

Learning the solution operator of parametric partial differential equations with physics-informed DeepOnets

Sifan Wang, Hanwen Wang, Paris Perdikaris

Deep operator networks (DeepONets) are receiving increased attention thanks to their demonstrated capability to approximate nonlinear operators between infinite-dimensional Banach…

cs.LG2020★ 705 cited

On the eigenvector bias of Fourier feature networks: From regression to solving multi-scale PDEs with physics-informed neural networks

Sifan Wang, Hanwen Wang, Paris Perdikaris

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are demonstrating remarkable promise in integrating physical models with gappy and noisy observational data, but they still struggle in cas…

cs.LG2020★ 121 cited

When and why PINNs fail to train: A neural tangent kernel perspective

Sifan Wang, Xinling Yu, Paris Perdikaris

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have lately received great attention thanks to their flexibility in tackling a wide range of forward and inverse problems involving partial…

math.NA2020★ 118 cited

Deep learning of free boundary and Stefan problems

Sifan Wang, Paris Perdikaris

Free boundary problems appear naturally in numerous areas of mathematics, science and engineering. These problems present a great computational challenge because they necessitate n…

cs.LG2020★ 198 cited

Understanding and mitigating gradient pathologies in physics-informed neural networks

Sifan Wang, Yujun Teng, Paris Perdikaris

The widespread use of neural networks across different scientific domains often involves constraining them to satisfy certain symmetries, conservation laws, or other domain knowled…